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28:34Exodus 28:34
A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about.
God directed that the high priest ministering before Him wear a blue robe woven in one piece with golden bells and pomegranates of blue, purple and scarlet alternating around its skirt hem, a costly and beautiful garment befitting his exalted station. The care and order prescribed for that apparel taught reverence, that God is holy and His service sacred and that everything connected with it must be clean and free from impurity. The tinkling of the bells could be heard when he came out of the most holy place, reassuring the waiting people in solemn prayer that he was still alive and had returned to bless them. Jesus put on that robe with bells and pomegranates around its hem when He finished His work in the holy place of the heavenly sanctuary at the close of the 2300 days in 1844 and passed within the second veil into the most holy place, where He stands and ministers before the Father as the great High Priest still interceding for Israel. While He wears it His work is not finished and the wrath of God is restrained until every case is decided for salvation or destruction, but the sound of the bells is heard as He moves out of the most holy place at the closing of His mediation, when He lays off His priestly attire for garments of vengeance and the seven last plagues are poured out.
Priestly Robe and Bells
The verse belongs to God's specific instructions for the garments of those who ministered before Him, providing clothing suited to their service in the holy place. The garments of the high priest were of costly material and beautiful workmanship befitting his exalted station. Over the linen dress worn by the common priest he wore a robe of blue woven in one piece. Around its skirt hem were golden bells and pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet, set in alternating order, a golden bell and a pomegranate.
The prescribed care and order in that apparel showed reverence for God and taught that He is holy and His service sacred. Everything connected with that service was to be clean and free from impurity. The care given to dress in the tabernacle service shows that dress matters, and the symbolic clothing teaches that the dress of Christ's followers should represent Him.
The inner apartment was the special dwelling place of God's visible glory, where no mortal eye but the high priest's could look. He could enter it only once a year, and only after most careful and solemn preparation. With trembling he went in before God while the people waited in solemn silence with hearts uplifted in earnest prayer for the divine blessing, and before the mercy seat God conversed with him. The tinkling of the golden bells on the hem could be heard when he moved within and when he came out of the most holy place, telling the waiting people that he was still alive inside and assuring them that he had returned alive. If he remained an unusual time they were terrified, fearing that because of their sins or some sin of the priest the glory of the Lord had slain him, so when the sound was heard they were greatly relieved, and he then came forth and blessed the people.
Christ's Heavenly High Priesthood
The robe of Exodus 28:34 is the garment Jesus put on when He finished His work in the holy place of the heavenly sanctuary at the close of the prophetic periods, at the end of the 2300 days in 1844, and closed the door of that apartment to pass within the second veil into the most holy place. On that entry He was clothed with precious garments with bells and pomegranates around the bottom, with a curious-worked breastplate hung from His shoulders that glittered like diamonds and magnified engraved letters like names, and with what looked like a crown on His head. After the Father went in a flaming chariot within the veil into the Holy of Holies and sat, Jesus was borne in a cloudy chariot with wheels like flaming fire surrounded by angels to where the Father sits. The bells and pomegranates on the hem seen on His garment as He stands and ministers before the Father in the heavenly Most Holy Place mark Him as the great High Priest still interceding for Israel, linking the high-priestly robe with His continuing sanctuary ministry. While wearing that robe, those who follow Him by faith into the Holiest pray for the Spirit, and He breathes upon them the Holy Ghost with light, power, love, joy and peace.
While He wears that priestly robe His work is not finished and He will not leave the most holy place until every case is decided either for salvation or destruction. The wrath of God cannot come and the plagues cannot be poured out while He officiates in the sanctuary, but when He has finished His work there He lays off His priestly attire, clothes Himself with the garments of vengeance, steps out from between the Father and men and stands up; then God keeps silence no longer but pours out His wrath in the seven last plagues.
The tinkling of the bells upon the hem is heard as Jesus moves out of the most holy place, marking the finishing of His work there and the closing of His mediation and intercession between guilty man and an offended God. After that closing there is no mediator and a cloud of darkness covers the earth; while Jesus stood between God and guilty man a restraint was upon the people, but when He steps out the restraint is removed and Satan has entire control of the finally impenitent. His wrath then breaks with fury upon the shelterless head of the guilty sinner who slighted salvation and hated reproof. In that fearful time the saints live in the sight of a holy God without an intercessor, every case having been decided for life or death and every jewel numbered, while Jesus tarries a moment in the outer apartment and the sins confessed while He was in the most holy place are placed upon Satan, the originator of sin, who must suffer their punishment.
God directed that the high priest ministering before Him wear a blue robe woven in one piece with golden bells and pomegranates of blue, purple and scarlet alternating around its skirt hem, a costly and beautiful garment befitting his exalted station. The care and order prescribed for that apparel taught reverence, that God is holy and His service sacred and that everything connected with it must be clean and free from impurity. The tinkling of the bells could be heard when he came out of the most holy place, reassuring the waiting people in solemn prayer that he was still alive and had returned to bless them. Jesus put on that robe with bells and pomegranates around its hem when He finished His work in the holy place of the heavenly sanctuary at the close of the 2300 days in 1844 and passed within the second veil into the most holy place, where He stands and ministers before the Father as the great High Priest still interceding for Israel. While He wears it His work is not finished and the wrath of God is restrained until every case is decided for salvation or destruction, but the sound of the bells is heard as He moves out of the most holy place at the closing of His mediation, when He lays off His priestly attire for garments of vengeance and the seven last plagues are poured out.
Priestly Robe and Bells
The verse belongs to God's specific instructions for the garments of those who ministered before Him, providing clothing suited to their service in the holy place. The garments of the high priest were of costly material and beautiful workmanship befitting his exalted station. Over the linen dress worn by the common priest he wore a robe of blue woven in one piece. Around its skirt hem were golden bells and pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet, set in alternating order, a golden bell and a pomegranate.
The prescribed care and order in that apparel showed reverence for God and taught that He is holy and His service sacred. Everything connected with that service was to be clean and free from impurity. The care given to dress in the tabernacle service shows that dress matters, and the symbolic clothing teaches that the dress of Christ's followers should represent Him.
The inner apartment was the special dwelling place of God's visible glory, where no mortal eye but the high priest's could look. He could enter it only once a year, and only after most careful and solemn preparation. With trembling he went in before God while the people waited in solemn silence with hearts uplifted in earnest prayer for the divine blessing, and before the mercy seat God conversed with him. The tinkling of the golden bells on the hem could be heard when he moved within and when he came out of the most holy place, telling the waiting people that he was still alive inside and assuring them that he had returned alive. If he remained an unusual time they were terrified, fearing that because of their sins or some sin of the priest the glory of the Lord had slain him, so when the sound was heard they were greatly relieved, and he then came forth and blessed the people.
Christ's Heavenly High Priesthood
The robe of Exodus 28:34 is the garment Jesus put on when He finished His work in the holy place of the heavenly sanctuary at the close of the prophetic periods, at the end of the 2300 days in 1844, and closed the door of that apartment to pass within the second veil into the most holy place. On that entry He was clothed with precious garments with bells and pomegranates around the bottom, with a curious-worked breastplate hung from His shoulders that glittered like diamonds and magnified engraved letters like names, and with what looked like a crown on His head. After the Father went in a flaming chariot within the veil into the Holy of Holies and sat, Jesus was borne in a cloudy chariot with wheels like flaming fire surrounded by angels to where the Father sits. The bells and pomegranates on the hem seen on His garment as He stands and ministers before the Father in the heavenly Most Holy Place mark Him as the great High Priest still interceding for Israel, linking the high-priestly robe with His continuing sanctuary ministry. While wearing that robe, those who follow Him by faith into the Holiest pray for the Spirit, and He breathes upon them the Holy Ghost with light, power, love, joy and peace.
While He wears that priestly robe His work is not finished and He will not leave the most holy place until every case is decided either for salvation or destruction. The wrath of God cannot come and the plagues cannot be poured out while He officiates in the sanctuary, but when He has finished His work there He lays off His priestly attire, clothes Himself with the garments of vengeance, steps out from between the Father and men and stands up; then God keeps silence no longer but pours out His wrath in the seven last plagues.
The tinkling of the bells upon the hem is heard as Jesus moves out of the most holy place, marking the finishing of His work there and the closing of His mediation and intercession between guilty man and an offended God. After that closing there is no mediator and a cloud of darkness covers the earth; while Jesus stood between God and guilty man a restraint was upon the people, but when He steps out the restraint is removed and Satan has entire control of the finally impenitent. His wrath then breaks with fury upon the shelterless head of the guilty sinner who slighted salvation and hated reproof. In that fearful time the saints live in the sight of a holy God without an intercessor, every case having been decided for life or death and every jewel numbered, while Jesus tarries a moment in the outer apartment and the sins confessed while He was in the most holy place are placed upon Satan, the originator of sin, who must suffer their punishment.